Australian Ceramics Community Member

About

Sydney based artist Rachael McCallum experiments with the media of ceramic to produce painterly effects in clay and glaze. Bordering upon abstract expressionism and material sciences, Rachael relies upon chaos to produce “happy accidents”.

Each ceramic-painting piece is an individually characterized product of the volatile process of “becoming”. In the clay, glazing and firing stages Rachael tests the material’s inherent fragililty to expose it’s own weaknesses and allow for the piece to exhibit it’s own unique nature. As suggested in the closing exhibition performance “Wrekt”, Tinning St Presents: Melbourne; breakages are acknowledged as part of greater expressions of endurance, transience and impermanence.

Rachael currently works out of her studio at kil.n.it, 184 Glebe Point road, Glebe, 2037 NSW.